I mean, let’s say it’s very likely that there wasn’t much maneuver practice above 24 AoA ?
In the case of the F-15, there are also really few people could fly an Eagle at low speeds and high AoA because it already requires a good, talented pilot. Who knows what he can still afford and what he can’t.
According to the manuals, exceeding the normal AoA limits is forbidden. I don’t think the spins were unrecoverable, just lacked necessary altitude to recover.
The Russians had few training hours in the air back then , why couldn’t that be true ? The fact that it is a well known Russian site lends credibility , the description also seems quite credible to me.
Kinda off topic guys but i’d like to ask, is the gripen accurate at all? Like i have almost all the 4th gen (including the gripen) but none of them is even close to it in terms of flight performance… If it’s really accurate then i’m really surprised and i can say my country did a great deal IRL lmao
I don’t know, I don’t have a Gripen, but I wouldn’t bring the game any closer to reality.
But the JAS-39 is good, not many people know that though. A friend of mine works as a technician at Gripen and I have plenty of first hand knowledge. It’s a good plane.
Well as a brazillian i always liked the gripen, i just didn’t knew it was going to be that good, thus, i’m surprised. If it really is like that then i’m inclined to accept as i learned a lot of things about aircraft in general throughout the past year, i tried to seek for info about the plane but is quite confusing, which is normal since the gripen is a relatively new platform compared to other aircraft. I guess only time will tell if it’ll keep that performance on the next months.
The negative static stability is not modeled at all.
The thrust is above real world performance a bit (and drag is higher than it should be as a result).
The top speed is far too high, acceleration in supersonic region as well as when ordnance is mounted.
Overall, specific excess power is seemingly far too high… the aircraft needs to be reworked in the future but Gaijin isn’t willing to make such changes on aircraft once they’ve been in the game for a while. This is probably how it will remain for quite some time.
Not the only aircraft with wrong thrust sometimes they leave how it is as they can’t get it to work
Like the Harriers thrust is wrong but its only like that as wouldn’t take off if it was for some reason
That is quite a unique case, there aren’t really many other aircraft in the game with incorrect thrust. Those that do have incorrect thrust lack necessary information to model them properly. In the case of the Gripen it was just a developer decision.
So how about the G limit and AoA? The SDU-10 has an option to disable the limit, but I think the limit can also be " overridden" by increasing force on stick.
The answer is that the Gripen is very likely overperforming compared to its real life counterpart. It is a .9 thrust to weight ratio delta wing fighter…which usually translates to high AoA ability and speed bleed in War Thunder, but for whatever reason Gaijin decided to make the flight model feel extremely similar to the F-16A because that just happens to be what it is most commonly compared to.
Is this accurate? Most likely no. However most of the people saying that it isn’t don’t have any proof outside of basically saying “look at it…it’s a delta wing like M2K…ergo it should perform the same or worse in turns.”